From Live at Blackheath Halls 19/09/13, released 04 Oct 2013

Alto Sax - Nathaniel Facey
Alto Sax/ Clarinet - William Scott 
Tenor Sax/ Clarinet/ Flute - Leo Aarons-Richardson
Tenor Sax - Claire Furlong
Bari Sax/ Bass Clarinet - Greg Sinclair
Trumpet - Tom Dennis, Mike Soper, Lily Carassik, Alaric Taylor
Trombone - Ross Lumbard, Rosie Turton, Hannah Dilkes, George Wrench
Electric Guitar - James Kitchman
Keyboards/ Piano - Elliot Galvin 
Double Bass - Louis Thomas 
Drums - Liz Exell

The full live album can be streamed and downloaded for here: https://emmajeanthackray.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-blackheath-halls-19-09-13

Johari's Window feat. James Kitchman/  Nathaniel Facey [LIVE]

A driving, 70s jazz-rock-disco inspired work-out from the Marxist Love Disco Ensemble. ‘Material’ is the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album, ‘MLDE’. Building from the bass-guitar intro, it introduces a Moog, a haunting Arp Solina string machine, live percussion, and layered glazed vocal arrangements, invoking elements of Gino Soccio as it escalates. The song explores aspects of dialectical materialism and revolution, all shrouded in the format of a bonafide club dancer.

Marxist Love Disco Ensemble - Material

One Day One Beat #39
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Souvenir

“Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing” is the lead off single from Gloria Ann Taylor’s upcoming anthology with the ultra-heavy psychedelic soul burner “Brother Less Than A Man” on the B-side. 

iTunes: http://apple.co/1Lj14JL
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1M09Vug

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Gloria Ann Taylor "Love Is A Hurtin' Thing b/w Brother Less Than A Man" 7in

Acajou aims at revisiting indigenous music from across the globe with contemporary influences. 
This one blends samples of a native Brazilian tribe with vocals from a famous popstar. 

Additional mixing by Jonathan Lefèvre-Reich.
Mastering by Igor Moreno.

Watu Num U'i (Acajou Rihwork)

Released also on vinyl.

Album Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet "Polka" uzyskał status Złotej Płyty w Polsce, ale jego historia wciąż się rozwija. Oto przedstawiamy pierwszy pakiet remiksów i reinterpretacji oryginalnych utworów z bestsellerowej płyty.

Dobór artystów nie jest przypadkowy, jak przypadkowy nie jest wydawca - U Know Me Records. Na płycie, która ukaże się na winylu, usłyszeć można wszystko to co świeże w polskiej muzyce: od klubowej elektroniki spod znaku RYS z rewelacyjną Justyną Święs, po hiphopowych innowatorów (Holak z Weną) i rapowych weteranów (Metro i O.S.T.R.). Dołóżmy do tego doświadczonych Enveego, Daniela Drumza i Hatti Vatti oraz Misię Furtak z Twardowskim oraz zupełnego debiutanta (zwycięzce naszego, otwartego konkursu na remiks) Yoshiego Swxdn i mamy z pewnością jedną z najbardziej zaskakujących składanek remiksowych w historii naszej fonografii.
Warto nadmienić, że mastering całości popełnił Marcin Cichy ze Skalpela, a intrygującą oprawę graficzną płyty stworzył Mateusz Holak. Obok tej płyty nie da się przejść obojętnie! 

Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet - SUNDAY (Envee Saturday Mix) [UKM 044]

Disque La Rayé (60's french west indies Boo-Boo-Galoo) is our latest project curated by Digger's Digest and produced by Born Bad Record and will be out the 25th June. This 13 titles compilation gathers a selection of tracks sounding like a rather unorthodox créole interpretation of the nuyorican Booglaoo, stuck between the strong Yéyé influence coming from the french Metropole and the modern latin fusion emerging from Harlem.

Order here : 
http://www.diggersdigest.com/shop/product/disque-la-rayé-60s-french-west-indies-boo-boo-galoo/


Tracklist 

1.Maurice Alcindor - Sekirité sociale
2.Gabby Siarras - Sauvagement sexy 
3.Les Bois sirop - Je voudrais danser avec toi
4.Dany Play - Mais tu sais
5.David Martial - Jerk vidé
6.Le Ry-co Jazz - Pipi poh
7.Le Ry-co Jazz - Tu bois beaucoup
8.Joby Valente - Disque la rayé
9.Fred Aucagos - Ti Mam'zelle
10.Dany Play - Pourquoi pas
11.Les Vickings - Puchi's boogaloo
12.Monsieur X - Ou qué di moin
13.Henri Debs - Ou pas z'amis en mwen

Conception & réalisation : Julien Achard & JB Guillot

Clearance : Jb Guillot // Texte : David Commeillas // Traduction : Diane Lebel //Restauration & mastering : Norscq // Artwork : FLX


Read the story of Disque La Rayé by David Commeillas : Disque La Rayé
http://diggersdigest.com/blog/disque-la-ray%C3%A9-out-now-on-born-bad-records/

Disque La Rayé (60's french west indies Boo-Boo-Galoo) snippets - OUT ON Born Bad Records

The shelf by the toilet in my childhood home is jam-packed with old memorabilia. And in between all the bits and bobs, I found the greatest objet d’art of them all: Hubbas soundtrack from the late, great film director Arild Kristos’ magnum opus, “Eddie & Suzanne” (1975). A classic, romantic Shakespearean road movie.

One of those who really hated the film, and who should therefore be listened to is the renowned late film critique Pål Bang Hansen. He wrote:

“Arild Kristo wants you to think that lust is all-consuming love, when really it's just endorphins. What makes things even worse is what must be one of the most gloopy and phallic film scores in recent memory: hubbabubbaklubb’s “Eddie & Suzanne”, which seduces teenage girls into paroxysms of romantic grief… blæh!

A: Eddie & Suzanne
B: Virkelighet 

Get your Eddie & Suzanne LP now @snorkelrecords.com
Limited wax only
Out now!

Artwork by Otio Yüng

Eddie & Suzanne

SNRKL003 hubbabubbaklubb - Eddie & Suzanne 7"

In 1972, Orchestre Abass released two incredible singles on Polydor. These records - featuring Samarin Banza, Haka Dunia and other afrofunk masterpieces - were powerful enough to knock any music head out, but it wasn’t until the discovery of some unreleased material by the band that the seeds for this project were planted. 

It all happened in 2008 in Ghana. I was going through some tapes that had previously been the property of PolyGram one of the major record companies based in west Africa. In the late 80s political instability and curfews had paralysed the music industry forcing Polygram to close their Ghanaian subsidiaries leaving all of their recordings behind. These recordings had been packed in boxes and left vegetating in an Accra warehouse for three decades until I came along. To my surprise all of the tapes looked unharmed and I was particularly relieved to hear that the Orchestre Abass tape was in an excellent state of condition. I began fiddling around with the idea of releasing an album of the band and that plan got an additional boost with le “coup de grace” which had landed in the form of an ultra rare tune called Honam discovered in Sotoboua, a small northern Togolese town in the middle of nowhere. That find completed this selection.

I had previously discovered some similar music in Northern Benin and in Nigeria and I started picturing an area that spread all the way from Northern Ghana to Northern Cameroon, an area I dubbed ‘The Islamic funk belt’ due to the fact that Super Borgou de Parakou, Napo De Mi Amor, Uppers International and Hamad Kalkaba just to name a few - all from that ‘belt’ - were groups made up of musicians with an Islamic background. This can be felt and heard in the music and particularly in the singing since many of the musicians had attended koranic schools and the languages used in the songs often had Arabic elements fused in - Orchestra Abass was one of them. 

With their heavy, organ-led sound combining with the deftest of musical touches, these records were the work of a rhythmic powerhouse and we are honoured to be in a position to present the recordings of Togo´s funkiest Band.

Unfortunately Malam Issa Abass, the founder, guitarist and organ player of the band, was killed in 1993 by a grenade thrown into his bedroom and to help me reconstruct the biography of the band I tracked down Thon Komla, one of the band´s songwriters and Abderaman Issa, the guitar player of the band. 

All the music was licensed directly from the various composers of these songs. The vinyl is pressed on 180 High Quality Virgin Vinyl and the gatefold contains previously unseen pictures and a detailed biography of the might band.

Orchestre Abass Master

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Haka Dunia - Orchestre Abass

The title track from the Quantic & Alice Russell LP 'Look Around the Corner' recorded in 2009 with the Combo Barbaro, released in 2012 & recently awarded 'Itunes UK R'n'B Album of the Year'. Tracking and mixing was undertaken at Quantic's Sonido del Valle studio in Cali, Colombia. 

Look Around the Corner

Coming soon on Jazz Room Records: JAZZR 004. Exclusive Vinyl Release.
A groundbreaking album, "El Maja" was released by The Robin Jones Seven in 1972. “El Maja”, “Carica Papaya”and the track that Robin himself said is the first recorded Samba tune in the UK: “Batucada Da Vida” are complemented by the Afro-Boogaloo of “The Wailer”, the soulful grooves of “Chant Afrique” and a particular highlight being the spiritual jazz drenched “Atlas”. See now at: https://robinjonesseven.bandcamp.com/

Johari's Window feat. James Kitchman/ Nathaniel Facey [LIVE]

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